We are an awfully coached team

Garethw

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Week after week after week of hoping a superstar bails us out while the brain trust acts their hearts out on the sidelines trying to pretend they know what they're doing.
100%. Careful though, you’ll have Wumminator naming and shaming you after the game.
 

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Certainly explains the wild swings of inconsistency from one game to another.

You can only get so far being dependent on pure squad quality and magic moments. We have no control of games or structure.

Over a big sample size this will bite us in the ass.
 

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The McFred combo always made sense to me until today.

Having to watch the Chelsea vs City game I have noticed how City are playing with KDB, Silva and Rodri a their CM.

KDB is playing high up, and Silva and Rodri seem to be sitting back. City are dominating the Midfield battle and Silva is holding his own against Rudiger.

I really don’t know know why we can not play with one defensive mid and a playmaker and still have Bruno operate as a number 10 or the furtherest CM.

I am getting sick of having to play McFred as if we can’t cope without playing with 2 CDMs.
I thought the original thinking behind playing McFred was to protect a back 4 (particularly central defence) because of its lack of pace. Most seemed to think as soon as we had someone with a bit of pace in there, we could be a bit more adventurous in midfield. Varane is here. McFred still play. Turns out Ole is just a negative shithouse.
 

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Wait for iiiiiittttt.....any minute now....where are the......“you are all just internet idiots that don’t know anything about coaching?

as I have said a million times in this thread...you don’t have to be a top level coach to look at players of unquestionable ability look absolutely clueless as to how to break down another team. This is the last 18 months. Wouldn’t be surprised if we win by2 or 3 but that doesn’t paint over the fact that this frustrating and slow football is how we play 80% of the time
 

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Ole requires Star players to bail him out too often. He's lucky to be at United where he can spent money to replace players at ease. He won't be able to spend so much money to cover his weakness at any other club.
 

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Ole requires Star players to bail him out too often. He's lucky to be at United where he can spent money to replace players at ease. He won't be able to spend so much money to cover his weakness at any other club.
I agree.
 

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If Eric Ramsey spent half as much time drilling the team for set-pieces as he does in the gym to look all buff we might be half decent.
 

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Why was AWB marking their CB in corners? He is one of our worst in the air.
 

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If we are getting dominated by a decent to good team, at home, then definitely there are problems with coaching.
 

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We simply cannot handle the press, our players are slow on the ball and pedestrian. Youd think wed have this nailed as most teams deploy pressing tactics these days..
 

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Watching on a stream that pauses every 10 seconds only makes this more frustrating to watch. Can see this half is going to drift away.
 

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This damn obsession from the club and many fans of being so hung up on tradition and past history has been holding this club back since fergie left.
 

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Slowly losing patience with Ole now.. his inability to control games is becoming a real problem, simply not good enough for a team that's supposed to be challenging for the Champions League.
 

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Since getting Ronaldo, your general play has got even worse.

The thing is: I like Ole. A lot. But something is simply not working, and after all this time and money if it's not working by now, it's never going to.
 

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Ole is a completely clueless tactician. There's nothing. He doesn't know what he's doing. Everything achieved so far has been because of having better players than most other teams.
 

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We've got to do something to counter their 3-5-2. Typically Ole wont have the answers.
 

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It’s normal to see this kind of performance now. It’s criminal to be this bad with so many good players in the team.
 

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Ole needs to go. Conte or Zidane it is.

We needed to be proactive and sack Ole earlier and hire an up and coming manager. But it is what it is.
 

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Ole is a completely clueless tactician. There's nothing. He doesn't know what he's doing. Everything achieved so far has been because of having better players than most other teams.
Hes just really bad at his job. Some see this as progression, though.
 

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He needs sacking ASAP. We're winning nothing with Ole and not even playing anything remotely decent. Even if we win this has been abysmal.
 

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I think this game might be the turning point for me. We've looked absolutely clueless.
 

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If we score a winner, the usual suspects will come in here to pile on with ridicule and laugh reacts... As if it negates any of the points made in this thread.